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WorksheetsThe Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Dust Bowl
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 8mins
When investors realized that the economy was slowing, they began to sell off their stocks. Most of these stocks weren’t worth the same amount as when they were bought. The effect of this was:
The banks that gave the loans to investors to buy the stock forgave their debts, and the economy did not suffer.
President Hoover ordered banks to close and give customers their money back.
The stock market crashed, investors who bought stocks on credit couldn’t pay back their loans, banks closed, and people lost their savings because most banks had also invested money in the stock market.
President Roosevelt closed all banks for four days in order to determine which banks were honest enough to reopen.
What happens during a depression?
The country celebrates a booming economy.
Many people find jobs and prosper.
The economy slumps and industries do not grow.
FDR’s New Deal fires President Hoover.
Because of the Great Depression, many people were unemployed. As a result, these people
Waited on a new election to finally elect a president who would find a way to solve the nation’s problems.
Waited on the President Hoover to find a way to end the Depression.
Sold all that they had to move to the south in search of jobs.
Could not pay their bills or debts to banks which led to failed banks and businesses.
What was the domino effect during the Great Depression?
Hiring workers, increased demand for product and building new companies
Hiring workers, increasing wages and low demand for products
Laid off workers, decreasing wages and decreasing prices because there was no demand for products
Laid off workers, increasing wages and high demand for product
What was the name given to unemployed young men and women that took the highways or rode the rails from town to town seeking work or a hand out?
Rail Riders
Hoboes
Trail Jumpers
Freedom Marchers
What was the effect of the harsh winds from the Dust Bowl?
Farmers moved to the north to find jobs.
African Americans moved to Harlem in the Great Migration.
The wind blew the rich topsoil away causing dust storms and left some farmlands unusable.
President Hoover started the New Deal.
What were the New Deal’s three major goals?
Relief, recovery, reform
Security, safety, stocks
Farms, freedom, fearlessness
Work, welfare, wealth
What New Deal program created National Parks that can still be enjoyed today?
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Deposit of Insurance (FDIC)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Social Security Act
Which program was developed by FDR in order to protect money deposited into banks and help Americans regain trust in banks again?
Credit card
Federal Deposit of Insurance (FDIC)
Social Security Act
4-Day Bank Holiday
Which New Deal program makes sure that the disabled and elderly have some income?
Social Security Act
Federal Deposit of Insurance (FDIC)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Hooverville
Which of the following New Deal programs are still in use today? Choose TWO.
Social Security Act
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Where did many farmers go because of the Depression and the Dust Bowl?
They packed up their belongings and headed west, hoping to find work and new lives in California.
Some farmers moved in with friends and neighbors after banks repossessed their farms and homes.
Farmers decided that their families would do better in a colder, wetter climate like Oregon.
Farmers didn’t move from the Plains states. They stayed on their farms and waited patiently for the drought and winds to end.
